This just in from the Fischerspooner camp:
Fischerspooner are putting the finishing touches on their second album in NYC with French producer Mirwais. So far the band have collaborated on tracks with David Byrne, Linda Perry, Susan Sontag and Tony Hoffer although the final track listing for the album remains undecided. The album is tentatively titled 'Odyssey', is being mixed in London with Mark 'Spike' Stent and Stephen Fitzmaurice and will be released via Capitol and EMI worldwide next Spring.

Add one more item to my wishlist - the LooP.Ph light sleeper. It's an electroluminescent textile bedding with integrated alarm that simulates a natural dawn to ease you into your day. Seems like it would be really easy to make this with some EL wire and a simple timer.

LA Robots:

More party planning goodness for your spook-tacular weekend,

Thursday night see the sold out Interpol show at the Wiltern, then head over to the aforementioned DFA show at The Echo, or head to the Beauty Bar where Carlos from Interpol will be reinterpreting his Les Infants Terribles/Dorkpol appearance, spinning his favorite beats.


Interpol at the Filmore SF, Feb 2003

Saturday night head to Key Club for the Gigolo Records Halloween Party with Zombie Nation, Mount Sims, Crossover and DJ Unknown. Maybe you'll even hear DJ Unknown throw down his Bush-bashing acid techno burner (thanks Kevin McFancy).

Also, next Friday November 5th, catch Tommie Sunshine on the decks at Training Bra, the LBC's monthy electro party.

Thanks to DJ Saintpatrick for the tips.

SF Robots:

Friday night don't miss the Remix Hotel Afterparty at RX Gallery, featuring Ghostly International artist Matthew Dear and Telefon Tel Aviv from Domino.

Then Sunday head to Studio Z on Folsom St. for Tokyo Electric's Halloween bash, for a night of electro beats plus a live performance from Metropolis Records Artist 'Fixmer/McCarthy' (NITZER EBB Frontman Douglas McCarthy and Gigolo Records artist Terrence Fixmer).

Proving once again that Thursday is the night to go out in LA, head down to The Echo on the 28th to catch James Murphy from DFA/LCD Soundsystem and get down to his unique blend of hard techno, sprawling space rock, hipster pop and squealing 909 jams. Tickets are $17 at the door.

Continuing with our Thursday night theme, on the fourth choose from seeing our favorite Canadian, Tiga at Key Club, or head back to The Echo for VHS or BETA along with Telephone from P-town.

Mr. Robot?

Last night's Metro Area show in LA was fantastic. Morgan Geist was throwing down old school robotic love and the crowd went wild. If you're in San Francsico, make sure to see the Metro Area DJs tonight at Kelly's Mission Rock as part of the Blasthaus 9th Anniversary celebration - it's not to be missed!

Some fisheye lens fun from the opening night party at Rachel Ward's Terminal Five exhibit at JFK, before it was closed down.

I know, I know. I said more updates soon, but since early September I've traveling quite a bit, but now I'm finally getting some time to start enjoying what LA has to offer. Here's a few upcoming notable events:
- Tonight: Metro Area DJs at the Conga Room on Wilshire
- November 4th: Tiga at Key Club

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On temporary hiatus; back soon; new city; new robot love.

4 million personal robots will be sold in 2006.

Join Tokyo Electric on the dance floor for this Friday for a live performance by Miguel Fierro, better known to the electronic music world as Single Cell Orchestra. He's been producing everything from lush, emotion driven tracks such as "Knock out drops" to dance floor driving breakbeat and techno tracks for labels such as World Electric, Astralwerks, Reflective as well as Si Beggs' own Noodles imprint. More info at tokyoelectric.com.

Tokyo Electric
Friday, August 6th
Luna Lounge
1192 Folsom
10pm-3am 21

Not to brag or anything, but I got an award in this (page 75). For this. Yay!

O'reilly's new Make Magazine looks like Readymade for gadget freaks and geeks. I can't wait!

"The people who are into us are smart."

A whole lotta EmPeeThrees.

Ah, Farnsworth house, how I love thee.

Not exactly new, but extremely cool. Also not new, 30 seconds of Fischerspooner's latest song "Just Let Go" from the show Nip/Tuck.

Ruth La Ferla of the NY Times encourages you to take a look around — you’ll soon see it’s not just fellow iRobotnikers that are obsessed with robots, it’s all of society, from the robomates of The Stepford Wives to the latest embellishments by Muccia Prada.

Once again, robots - we're way ahead of the curve.

George Lucas has announced that the next Star Wars film will be called Revenge of the Sith.

Issue 6 of Spain's Fake is dedicated to all you wonderful fashion whores.

If you ever wondered what it would sound like if Stereo Total and Vive La Fête had offspring, then check out Auto. Auto is a french electro band. I like them. You might too.

Also, check out WordCount™ from Fabrica. It's a beautiful interactive presentation of the 86,800 most frequently used English words. See where your favorite vocabulary words rank.

It's shaping up to be a good weekend, robots. In addition to Saturday night's The Fitness/Scissor Sisters show at Slims, you can check out DMX Krew and others on Friday night live at Cafe Du Nord:

DMX Krew - Live & DJ ( REphLEx / Ghostly, Intl) / Safety Scissors - DJ (Poptronix / Plug Research) / UFO - DJ (Compression)

More info here.

Bikes Against Bush, Part II
Recent site updates provide a follow-up to my previous post about using wireless technology and bicycles to protest the 2004 Republican National Convention in NYC. Make sure to check out the video.

BitBoy has passed away?

Lots of buzz about this guy Moose today...maybe you've seen links elsewhere. If not check out Symbollix for his work. Basically he's been creating corporate graffiti by cleaning surfaces in the UK. It's brilliant but the authorities are also keen to put an end to it. I'm sure the sentence will involve removing his work......errr. Love the stuff for hype. Genius. [Blatantly ripped off from Dave Pinter, fellow Burnlab consipirator]

More information about Friday, July 30th at Mezzanine with Miss Kittin and Ghostly Int'l Art and Artifice 2004AD tour at Mezzanine. Get your tickets thru Blasthaus.

TDK is big pimpin' with these "Bit Club" minidiscs. Join the club exclusively at Audiocubes.com.

SF expatriate and video artist extraordinaire, Phoenix Perry (of Reline and Memory Systems fame) has created what looks to be a stunning new work of art along with Arnold Steiner and Brian Jackson with their new video, Draw Down. Draw Down explores the relationship between man, machine, environment and the culture of greed. If you're in NYC this Thursday, July 15th you can must catch the premiere of Draw Down as part of the NYC Film and Video Festival followed by a performance by 'Nix herself. More info can be found here. No information yet as to whether a left-coast premiere is on the horizon.

As if we needed another reason to prove Europeans have their shit together when it comes to design.

Also, if you're planning on going to either the Scissor Sisters/The Fitness show at Slim's on July 24th, or Miss Kittin, Dabrye, Midwest Product and Matthew Dear show at Mezzanine on July 30th, you should buy tickets ASAP, they're selling out fast and WILL be sold out by the time the shows roll around. You can get Scissor Sisters tickets at Tickets.com, and Mezzanine tickets are available at Blasthaus.com.